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CVE-2011-2910

Published: Nov 15, 2019

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

The AX.25 daemon (ax25d) in ax25-tools before 0.0.8-13 does not check the return value of a setuid call. The setuid call is responsible for dropping privileges but if the call fails the daemon would continue to run with root privileges which can allow possible privilege escalation.

Vendor	Product	Versions
ax25-tools	ax25-tools	affected `before 0.0.8-13`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2910

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-2910

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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2910

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